The Ring of the Red Chamber and the Nine Heavens

Jia Zheng threw Jia Baoyu into a carriage and shouted, "Sit down! I'll settle the score with you when I go back!" He himself took another carriage.

Jia Baoyu knew that there would be no good fruit to eat when he returned to the mansion, and he was so anxious that he wanted to jump out of the car and flee, but there were long guards in front of and behind the car, and it would be even more serious if his father was alarmed, so Baoyu dared not move. He just smiled and said to one of his followers: "After you go back, send a letter to the old lady quietly, saying that the master is going to beat me, and tell the old lady to come and save me quickly."

The long follower really wanted to say to him: "Second Master, don't worry, the master is on fire right now, and you want us to palpate the lice on the tiger's head, doesn't it mean that you want us to accompany you to suffer a wronged meal?" fight?"

However, Chang Sui thought about it, after all, Second Master Bao is the honorable little master of the mansion. Although he is a slave following the master, he is a child of the family after all, and there are other brothers and sisters working in other places in the mansion. Now, how dare you offend the second master Bao?He just acted coquettishly with the old lady at will, and a complaint is enough for us servants to drink a pot. If we don't agree first, and then act according to the camera, we really can't deliver the letter, and he can't blame us. .

The chief smiled casually and said, "Second Master Bao, keep your voice down. As long as the servants have a way, they will report to the old lady. How can I watch you suffer a lot?"

Baoyu was a little relieved, and then he dared to put his butt on the chair, calming down a little anxiety. At the same time, his mind began to work quickly, only thinking about how to explain and beg Jia Zheng later, so as to escape from this situation. It's difficult, no matter how you think about it, it's tricky.Baoyu thought about the tragic situation of Jingqing's beating again, and now he didn't know what to do. He couldn't help feeling pain and fear in his heart, and wished he could cry aloud.

In fact, no matter how much Baoyu thought about it, it was useless, because Jia Zheng never gave him a chance to explain.

As soon as he entered the mansion, Jia Zheng dragged Jia Baoyu in the direction of Rongxi Hall vigorously, causing Jia Baoyu to stumble and begged, "Master, let me go back and say hello to the old lady. Don't make her old man anxious."

Jia Zheng sneered and said, "Do you still know that your family members will worry about you? Why didn't you think of it when you were fooling around outside? Why don't you hurry up and wait for someone to save you?"

As he said that, Jia Zheng dragged him inward, saying, "Don't play tricks with me! If I don't punish you today, I won't even have the face to stand in this world!"

As soon as he entered the door, Jia Zheng told the boys: "Shut the door and block it with that big stone, and no one is allowed in! Anyone who dares to report to the old lady will be killed." !"

Jia Baoyu's head was sweating, and he knelt down and cried, "I beg the master to calm down. My son knows that he has made a mistake, so he will not dare to do it again. He must study hard and make progress, so that the master won't be bothered anymore."

Jia Zheng's eyeballs were as red as the burning charcoal fire, so scary, he hissed, "You still know how to read? You say that 'reading' has tarnished the word 'reading', do you know that? Master, I I told you to study, but why did you go? Speaking of the "good things" you did, even I was ashamed and panicked, wishing I could just dive into the ground. It's too late to say anything now, take a rope and a big board Come!"

Jia Baoyu was frightened out of his wits, curled up on the ground and howled loudly, begging for mercy.

Jia Zheng pointed to Baoyu and shouted to the boys who had brought stools, ropes, sticks and other things, "Gag him and beat him to death!"

Seeing that the master's face was like gold paper, and his eyes were red and purple, the boys knew that they were very angry, and they dared not disobey them, so they had to pull Baoyu, who was crying, to press him on the stool, and raised the big board to hit him ten or so times. The beaten Baoyu screamed in pain, "Old lady, help me!"

The more he shouted "Help", the more he angered Jia Zheng, and scolded: "When I take care of you on weekdays, you bring in many rescuers, so that you develop such a lawless and bandit temper now! You Still have the face to say 'help', and the strength to say 'help'? It seems that the beating was not hard enough!"

As he spoke more and more angrily, Jia Zheng simply kicked away the boy holding the board, and grabbed the big board himself. He didn't say much or curse, but gritted his teeth and greeted Jia Baoyu's buttocks and thighs fiercely. It covered thirty or forty times.

At first Jia Baoyu was crying in pain, shouting "Help", but gradually he became silent, his face was pale and weak, and he saw that he was about to be beaten to death.

The boys around the side were afraid that if Jia Zheng beat Baoyu to death, the old lady would not let him go lightly, so he might blame all the people present in this room today, so they alone He knelt down and tried to persuade him: "Master, please stop and fight again. If you beat Master Bao to something wrong, you are angry now. How can you not feel pain later?"

Jia Zheng was indeed tired from the beating, so he rested his arms on the big plank, watched the servant who was kneeling on the ground get down, and said angrily, "I'm tired and don't want to beat me anymore, but, But I have to fight! You can ask him if he can be forgiven for his deeds! I always want to take care of him, and there are always a group of people who come to tie his hands and feet, so he can't be disciplined! Don't you want to see him? One day a catastrophe will happen, why don't you come to persuade me? Instead of waiting until that day, it's better to strangle him to death today, so as to avoid future troubles!"

Now, who dares to persuade?

After finishing speaking, Jia Zheng started to beat Baoyu with the board again, and the clever ones among the servants climbed over the wall and went out to report the news.

After a while, there was a noise outside the door.It turned out that it was Mrs. Wang who got the news and rushed over. She was crying at the crack of the door and asked the people inside to let her in.Jia Zheng said sharply: "No, no! No matter who it is today, no one is allowed in!" He let Mrs. Wang beg outside no matter what, but just ignored.

After a while, there was a knock on the door.

Jia Zheng dropped Baoyu, and was about to see what happened, when he heard a loud bang, and the people outside smashed down the gate of Rongxi Hall. Wei Wei said: "Okay, you are such a big battle, why don't you kill me together, it will save you from worrying about me not allowing you to discipline your son!"

No matter how angry and resentful Jia Zheng was, he didn't dare to explode. He laughed and said, "My son is just disciplining Baoyu. Who is so talkative and told his mother to come in person?"

Mother Jia ignored him and went inside with a cane, and Mrs. Wang took advantage of the situation to follow.

As soon as she entered, she saw Baoyu lying on the big stool dying, and the extremely gorgeous moon-white five-bat holding birthday ball flower silk robe she was wearing when she went out in the morning was bloodstained from the waist down, Madam Wang let out a sharp cry. Crying and running over.

Then he lifted up his robe, unbuttoned his trousers, and saw that Jia Baoyu's lower limbs, from the buttocks to the shin, were either bruised or swollen, and there was no good flesh. Mrs. Wang burst into tears unknowingly: "I am miserable." My son, is your father going to beat you to death? Why don’t you beat me to death too, so that our mother and son can have someone to take care of you on the way to Huangquan.”

Jia's mother also rushed over to have a look. After only one glance, she turned her head and couldn't bear to look any more. Tears rolled down her face, and she cried and scolded, "Are you disciplining Baoyu? You are clearly beating him to death!" "

Jia Zheng hurriedly explained to Jia's mother: "The son was beaten a little bit harder, but what Baoyu did should be beaten. Mother, let your son tell you the reason for this."

Jia Mu didn't listen, and said: "Seeing that Baoyu's life is about to be ruined, I don't care to listen to what you have to say! No matter how serious his crime is, he can't be guilty of death, right? What else do you have to say? Are you going to delay us from inviting a doctor to treat him, and insist on forcing him to die before giving up? Get out of here soon!"

Jia Zheng had no choice but to leave Rongxi Hall with his servants.

After a while, Wang Xifeng, Li Wan and several girls from Jia's mansion all rushed over, not daring to show their anger, but only watching the face of Mrs. Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang.

Afterwards, the doctor from the imperial hospital was invited to see the doctor. Fortunately, Jia Zheng was a literati. It takes three to five months to recuperate at home and it is expected to be all right. I asked Mrs. Jia Muwang and others to feel a little relieved after hearing this.The doctor prescribed some medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and then left.

After Jia Baoyu drank the medicinal soup, he asked his maid, Xiren, to help him apply some externally applied medicine on the wound, and then fell asleep drowsily. They went back to their rooms heavily.

Naturally, Mother Jia summoned Jia Zheng and asked the reason sternly.

As soon as Jia Zheng said the ins and outs, Jia's mother was silent, and she was very ashamed. After a long time, Fang said, "I didn't know that Baoyu would be so absurd! He should not be asked to go to that school. It's ruined to teach some of the vulgar things that the executives are coquettish and unmotivated!"

Jia Zheng shook his head and said, "The other boy is the younger brother of Brother Rong's daughter-in-law. His father and I work in the same yamen office. He can be regarded as a child of a good family. It's not a mess. If you want to talk about the school, it's still Baoyu. I'm not good, I want to go downhill. How can Huan'er read well? I took the exams for Baoyu and Huan'er several times. "

Jia's mother said helplessly: "Huan'er is still young, so I don't understand these men and women. Now that Baoyu is old and knows about human affairs, we didn't get him a few maids to serve him. He is uncomfortable at home." , I just made bad friends outside, and when I got together, I asked them to instigate me to do these shameless things. In fact, it's not a problem, just turn around. You are so cruel, I can see My heart hurts so badly. According to me, it is better to choose two good-looking maids for Baoyu and put them in the house, so as to win his heart."

Jia Zheng disagreed and said, "How old is Baoyu? He's only 12 years old. Why should he have a housemaid? Besides, if Baoyu wants to have a housemaid, then he must have a maid. It's only fair."

Mother Jia finally laughed when she heard that, and said, "It's fair and unfair, but you're talking nonsense! Huan'er is so big that she needs to be a housemaid, isn't it a waste of delay? All right, let's put this matter aside for the time being." Bar."

Suddenly, Jia Zheng was so blessed that he leaned forward a little, made a sincere gesture, and said, "The old lady mentioned this matter today, and I have an idea. If you want to talk about marrying a concubine to collect Baoyu, you can marry a wife." For the first time. Think about it, the old lady, with Baoyu's temperament, how can the ordinary people in the house hold back? He must not be able to listen to a word, but he has enjoyed the pleasures of the boudoir early, and he has become less enterprising. However, if married A few years older, a virtuous and virtuous new daughter-in-law, she can indeed help to persuade her in daily life."

When Jia's mother heard it, her face darkened: "How old is she, who is still virtuous and chaste, who can be Baoyu's new wife, isn't it just the girl Bao who is praised by everyone?"Hmph, the second daughter-in-law is so clever, she actually convinced this stupid second daughter, and she ran away from me to come here to be a lobbyist!